missing floppy disk

[john.oregan]

Hello All!

Looking for an original Microsoft 3.5" floppy disk with Windows ver 3.1 Disk 7 of 7 written on it.

thanks,
John

[RetiredGeek]

John,

Top O' The Day to Ya! and welcome to the lounge. Gee if only you posted that a Year and a half ago when I trashed ALL my floppies. I know there was a copy of Windows 3.1 along with a couple of DOS 6.1's. Good luck with your search.

[JoeP517]

Looking for an original Microsoft 3.5" floppy disk with Windows ver 3.1 Disk 7 of 7 written on it. Will pay cash

See this thread Where to get 3.1 install disks.

Joe

[Banyarola]

I have a copy that I could send you.

[john.oregan]

I have a copy that I could send you.

Thanks, Banyarola!

I'll contact you privately. And thanks to the others who replied,

cheers,
John

[john.oregan]

Hello Again,

Unfortunately, Banya couldn't find the disk in question, so the search goes on. So if anyone out there has a shoebox full of floppies on top of the wardrobe, please have a look for me. I'll make it worth your while! Points to Banya for trying,

bfn,
John

[Sybex]

hiya

did you end up getting the missing disk ?

syb

[mercyh]

Not sure what version you have there.

The 3.1 disks that I have only include 6 disks.

The 3.11 has 8.

[john.oregan]

Hi Sybex!

Still no joy.

The search continues...

Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends!

[john.oregan]

Dear Mercyh,

Don't know about different versions. But that's what it says on the disk.
Maybe it's a European thing on account of fonts with diacritics and help files
in multiple languages.,

cheers,
John

[mercyh]

At the risk of offending the EULA gods, I could just zip my whole install up and sent it to you....

I guess it would be kind of legal as it is not currently installed anywhere else

[Sybex]

Hiya John,
the disk 7 of win 3.1 was a supplemental disk, had printer drivers etc on it, 3.1 should run fine without it and if you need CD drivers (oakcdrom.sys) then they should still be available for download and a lot easier to find. is your dos / win 3.1 install working ? is there a particular driver you need?

Syb

[john.oregan]

Dear Mercyh,

Truth is I'm a bit OCD (okay, anal retentive).
I have all the other DOS 6.2 and Win 3.1 disks
and I need to complete the collection,

John

[john.oregan]

Dear Sybex,

I thought I had all the disks and now I know that I don't, a part of me
won't rest easy until I have a complete collection again. It's not rational.
I admit that.

Images of the floppies are floating around in cyberspace and I'm toying
with the idea of doing a virtual install on Dosbox or something like that.

But like Mercyh said, I don't want to get in trouble with the software
police so there's some justification for trying to find that missing floppy,

John